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A minuscule library to parse URLs
$ npm install purl
Copy the file purl.min.js
in the dist
folder and refer to it in your HTML:
<script src="/js/purl.min.js"></script>
purl
will now be available via window.purl
.
var url = purl('http://user:pass@www.example.com:8000/foo/bar?st=1<=10;#/koo9');
url.origin; // => 'http://www.example.com:8000'
url.protocol; // => 'http:'
url.username; // => 'user'
url.password; // => 'pass'
url.host; // => 'www.example.com:8000'
url.hostname; // => 'www.example.com'
url.port; // => '8000'
url.pathname; // => '/foo/bar'
url.search; // => 'st=1<=10;'
url.hash; // => '/koo9'
var p = purl('/foo/bar?st=1<=10;/koo9');
p.pathname; // => '/foo/bar'
p.search; // => 'st=1<=10;'
p.hash; // => '/koo9'
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FAQs
A minuscule library to parse URLs
The npm package purl receives a total of 1,534 weekly downloads. As such, purl popularity was classified as popular.
We found that purl demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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